In the early twenty-first century, Haredi cinema began to flourish, first in Israel and then in the United States and elsewhere. Haredi women have made films that focus on relationships among women, that are often much more aesthetically elaborate than Haredi men’s films, and that address issues that until recently were considered taboo.

Rama Burshtein’s films are among the most important created by a Haredi woman. Her first commercial film was shown exclusively to Haredi women, but Burshtein found the conventions of Haredi cinema poorly suited to her artistic aspirations, and her later films were aimed at the nonreligious world.